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• Timothy Snyder: The War on History is a War on Democracy | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  Timothy Snyder, an authority on totalitarianism, draws a straight line in this article that appeared in the New York Times from Stalin’s efforts to purge history of negative facts about the Soviet Union to the current mania among Republicans to cont…

• Historians and Other Scholars and Teachers Denounce Censorship in History Classes | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  The following statement was released by leading professional associations.

• CDC Vaccination Maps – The Map Room

  Maps tracking the progress of the U.S.’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign at the CDC’s COVID Data Tracker (now) include an interactive county-level map showing first and second doses among 12+, 18+ an…

• ‘Students Deserve to Know Our History’ (Opinion)

  A number of states have either passed or are considering legislation that would ban critical race theory and, in some cases, many types of lessons…

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ICYMI – Here are great posts from last week:

• Why Study English? Responses from Professionals

  Why Study English? I am a law enforcement officer with the Idaho Department of Corrections. I legitimately have to use report writing EVERY DAY. If you don’t like writing reports, DO NOT join law enforcement. Luckily, I’m good at it AND I like it.

• If I ever have to teach via Zoom again, what will I do differently? | How I see it now

  The first thing that comes to mind here is the workspace. It may seem superficial and quite unimportant given the seriousness of the circumstances we found ourselves in, but to me, it was one of the crucial aspects.

• Retrieval Practice: The Most Powerful Learning Strategy You’re Not Using | Cult of Pedagogy

  We’ve talked about retrieval practice two other times on this site: First in 2015, when we read the book Make…

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Great blog posts from last week:

• ‘Dragon man’ fossil may replace Neanderthals as our closest relative — ScienceDaily

  A near-perfectly preserved ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. The largest of known Homo skulls, scientists now say this skull represents a newly discovered human species named Homo…

• Scientists Identify New Human Species That Is the Closest Ever to Us

  A newly-discovered ancient human fossil known as the Harbin cranium could offer new insight into our evolution and it now sits in the Geoscience Museum in Hebei GEO University. It represents a never-before-seen human species named Homo longi or “Dra…

• GeekMom: ‘Tappity’ Your Way to K-5 Science Learning – GeekDad

  App and software makers are always trying to find new ways to engage kids with educational material. The educational software market is incredibly huge, and those publishers that adhere to national…

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Here are some great blog posts from last week:

• Teach Students to Write an Introduction for Opinion Writing

  As students continue their journey with opinion writing, they need to learn to writing an introduction or to introduce the topic.

• How to Understand Generation Alpha and Teach Them

  There’s a new generation in town. That’s right. Gen Z is now followed by Generation Alpha. Today’s guest, Mike Fisher has been studying Gen Alpha and wants to talk about how they are different and what we need to know about teaching this generation …

• How To Handle A Bully Colleague – Smart Classroom Management

  This article is a long time coming. It’s been on the list of most-requested topics for several years now, and it’s high time we cover it.

• What Is Juneteenth? – HISTORY

  Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865…

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More great blog posts from this past week:

• Using Minecraft to Write Survival Fiction | Minecraft: Education Edition

  When teachers use Minecraft: Education Edition for lessons, they usually operate in creative mode so students aren’t bothered by scarcity and the business of resource gathering—not to mention monstrous mobs prowling in the night! But Canadian educat…

• Our Minecraft Club – Educational Aspirations

  My school’s first elementary Minecraft club ended this week. It’s been quite a journey since January. The club started back in January with 25 students in grades 3-5. 11 weeks later the club concluded. Mary, Tara and I sponsored the club this year.

• Teachers protest against laws restricting lessons on racism – The Washington Post

  Educators sign pledge saying they will not lie to students.

• Remote Learning with Games by Teachers | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

  The popular platform Tinytap offers a wide variety of educational game-based resources…

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Great blog posts from last week:

• Using games for win-win learning – Oxford University Press

  Like many people around the world, I recently took time off at the end of December and the New Year to relax at home. A common feature of any holiday season, alongside eating large meals and seeing family and old friends, is playing games.

• Reimagining School after COVID | Facing History and Ourselves

  Since the coronavirus pandemic began over a year ago, students have had to navigate upheavals in their education and new ways of learning.

• My Lesson Plans for Teaching the American Revolution – History Gal

  I thought it might be helpful to share how I plan out my American Revolution unit.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Catchy Words – A Fun Augmented Reality App for Spelling Practice

  My daughters recently became very interested in a PBS Kids show called Word World. In each episode…

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Great blog posts from last week:

• How To Be A Role Model For Your Students (And Not An Internet Troll) – Smart Classroom Management

  Who you are and how you carry yourself has a powerful impact on student behavior. More than most teachers realize.

• Jan Resseger: Will the Biden Administration Revive the Failed Policies of NCLB and Obama? | Diane Ravitch’s blog

  A few years ago, someone coined the term “zombie policies” to describe policies that fail again and again, yet never go away. One such zombie is “merit pay,” which has never succeeded yet never dies an ignominious death or loss of reputation.

• 15 Best Story-Driven Video Games | TheGamer

  If you’re really into good storytelling in your video games, then these story-driven games with excellent plots will be right up your alley. Games stick with us for a variety of reasons.

• The 25 Best Interactive Story Games

  Each…

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More great blog posts from last week:

• How To Handle Return-To-School Misbehavior – Smart Classroom Management

  Word on the street is that many teachers are surprised by the misbehavior they’re seeing now that more and more students are returning to school. They shouldn’t be.

• NASA makes breathable oxygen from thin air on Mars | CBC News

  NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday.

• Blackbird | Learn computer programming with the friendliest app ever

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• The Future Looks Bright for Infinitely Recyclable Plastic

  Only about 2% of plastics are fully recycled currently. PDK plastics could solve the single-use crisis. (Chanchai Phetdikhai/Shutterstock) Plastics are a part of nearly every product we use on a daily basis. The average person in the U.S.

• Bacteria release more carbon from the ocean…

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It’s okay. Sam Wineburg says kids can hate your class.

History Tech

Okay. I don’t want kids to hate social studies. Let’s be clear about that from the get go.But . . . I alsothink that we sometimes fall off the wagon on the other end by working way too hard trying to find activities that our kids will enjoy or projects that are “engaging.”

It’s been more than just a few years since I first heard Sam Wineburg speak. I had read his book Thinking Historically and Other Unnatural Acts. Read some of his early articles on historical thinking skills and loved his ideas about how we needed to re-think our approach to teaching history. But it wasn’t until a combined Kansas / Missouri Council for History Education conference way back in 2008 that I first heard him speak. He opened the conference with a keynote highlighting the main ideas in his book.

And now, of course, he’s a future social…

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Here are more amazing blog posts from this past week:

• U.S. East Coast sea level rise in 20th century fastest in 2,000 years | NSF – National Science Foundation

  The rate of sea level rise in the 20th century along much of the U.S. Atlantic coast was the fastest in 2,000 years, and southern New Jersey had the fastest rates, according to a Rutgers University-led study funded by the U.S. National Science Found…

• Washington’s Water Quality Assessment offers insights into status of pollution | Puget Sound Institute

  More than 2,000 segments of streams, lakes and marine waters have been added to the state’s massive list of water-quality data, allowing more Washington residents to take stock of pollution levels near their homes.

• How To Effectively Send A Student To Time-Out – Smart Classroom Management

  You can call it time-out, time away, observation mode or anything you like, but the way you…

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